Current issues in the skilled temporary subclass 457 visa

People and Place

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 49-65

  Kinnaird, Bob ^a  

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MIGRANT WORKER; SKILLED LABOR; TRADE UNION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33748796641     PISSN: 10394788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (22)

1. The 457 visa is also used by other categories such as 'Independent executives'. In this paper, data refers only to employer-sponsored 457 visa holders except where indicated.
2. Sharan Burrow, President ACTU, letter to Commonwealth Ombudsman re 457 visas and 456 visas, 1 March 2006,
3. DIMA, Migration Program Discussion Paper, January 2006 (unpublished)
4. Business Temporary Entry - Future Directions, (Roach Report), Report by the Committee of Inquiry into the Temporary Entry of Business People and Highly Skilled Specialists, Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Canberra, August 1995
5. B. Kinnaird, 'Australia's migration policy and skilled ICT professionals: the case for an overhaul', People and Place, vol. 10, no. 2, 2002, p. 65
6. DIMA website, Temporary Business (Long Stay) - Standard Business Sponsorship (Subclass 457): Concessions for Regional Australia, accessed 7 June 2006,
7. Senator Amanda Vanstone, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Answer to Question on Notice no. 1669, Senate Hansard, 14 June 2006, pp. 155-157. Data includes independent executives.
8. Proof Committee Hansard, Senate Estimates Hearing, Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee (Budget Estimates), Monday, 22 May 2006, Canberra, p. 70.
9. ibid., p. 34.
10. Senator Amanda Vanstone, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, 'New minimum salaries for temporary overseas skilled workers', media release, 1 May 2006
11. M. Shaw, 'Guest workers cut wages: Vanstone', The Age, June 8 2006
12. P. Donnelly, 'H-1B is just another gov't subsidy', Computerworld, 22 July 2002
13. Senator Amanda Vanstone, op. cit., media release, 1 May 2006
14. Proof Committee Hansard, 22 May 2006, op. cit. p. 78
15. ibid, p. 43
16. Senator Amanda Vanstone, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, 'Beazley at odds with State Labor Leaders', media release, 7 April 2006
17. ibid. Data includes independent executives.
18. S. Khoo, P. McDonald and G. Hugo, Temporary Skilled Migrants in Australia: Employment Circumstances and Migration Outcomes, August 2005, This is because the 457 visa-holders in the survey sample were drawn from only around 40 per cent of the relevant population of 457 visa-holders in Australia at September 2003 (and therefore excluded the majority 60 per cent who may have had different characteristics). It also achieved a fairly low response rate of only 24 per cent of those surveyed (a response rate of around 60 per cent in a sample survey is generally required for statistically robust findings).
19. ibid., p. 15;
20. S. Khoo, et al., op. cit.
21. B. Kinnaird, 'The impact of the skilled immigration program on domestic opportunity in information technology', People and Place, vol. 13, no. 4, December 2005
22. IT Skills Rub, Market Monitor, 2004. These are advertised salary rates derived from surveys of advertised vacancies in the first half of 2003-04.